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Amber Flora Thomas

Amber Flora Thomas is the recipient of several major poetry awards, including the Dylan Thomas American Poet Prize, Richard Peterson Prize and Ann Stanford Prize.  Her published work includes Eye of Water: Poems which won the Cave Canem Prize; The Rabbits Could Sing: Poems  is forthcoming from the University of Alaska Press in spring 2012.  Most recently, her poetry has appeared in Callaloo, Orion Magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among other publications.  She received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998.  Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.